Posts Tagged ‘Stanley Tucci’

We agree with Variety film editor Josh Dickey. The opening sentence of THR critic Todd McCarthy’s review of the Warner Bros. fantasy film Jack the Giant Slayer is one for the ages:

When will all the dead-serious $200 million battle-centered giant-infested similarly cast rousingly scored fabulously rendered 3D fairy-tale reimaginings all finally merge together into one enormous Anglophilic fantasmagoria of monarchical order and virtue so we can all be done with this for the time being?

We’re talking: 44 glorious words, four of them hyphenated; a French-leaning spelling of phantasmagoria (for le extra oomph?); and an audacious disregard of the comma. In this brief moment, McCarthy has recast himself as Todd the Run-On Sentence Slayer. Bravo.

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The latest episode of PBS TV series Vine Talk has a Central California flavor. Premiering over the weekend, “Zeroing in on Zinfandels” sent actor-host Stanley Tucci to the Paso Robles region to sample a concoction first bottled in California in 1857.

If you haven’t seen the program, it’s a pleasant diversion, with Tucci joined by various wine experts and celebrity guests such as, in this case, former New York Mets pitcher Ron Darling and Grammy nominated violinist Philippe Quint. Tucci asks Darling why so many MLB pitchers now seem to be into wine:

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We know Hollywood is the place for dreamers and the high aspirational. But ten nominations for best picture seems greedy and self-congratulatory. “There’s just so much WONDERFUL, QUALITY work we just couldn’t chose.”

As we’ve seen with politics, twice the candidates doesn’t make them better choices. Just more.

The complete list of the noms:

Best picture

“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“An Education”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”

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